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Astronomy in Venezuela

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Patricia Rosenzweig
Patricia Rosenzweig*
Affiliation:
Universidad de Los Andes, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Física, Grupo de Astrofísica Teórica (GAT), Mérida, Venezuela. e-mail: patricia@ciens.ula.ve

Abstract

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Since the installation of the Observatorio Cagigal in Caracas, astronomy in Venezuela has developed steadily, and, in the last few decades, has been strong. Both theoretical and observational astronomy now flourish in Venezuela. A research group, Grupo de Astrofísica (GA) at the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA) in Mérida, started with few members but now has increased its numbers and undergone many transformations, promoting the creation of the Grupo de Astrofísica Teórica (GAT), the Grupo de Astronomía, the Centro de Astrofísica Teòrica (CAT), and with other collaborators initiated the creation of a graduate study program (that offers master’s and doctor’s degrees) in the Postgrado de Física Fundamental of ULA. With the financial support of domestic Science Foundations such as CONICIT, CDCHT, Fundacite, and individual and collective grants, many research projects have been started and many others are planned. Venezuelan astronomy has benefitted from the interest of researchers in other countries, who have helped to improve our scientific output and instrumentation. With the important collaboration of national and foreign institutions, astronomy is becoming one of the strongest disciplines of the next decade in Venezuela.

Type
Section 4: Current Status of Astronomy Research in Developing Countries
Information
Transactions of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 24 , Issue 3: Special session: Astronomy for Developing Countries , 2001 , pp. 205 - 209
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2001

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